| 单词 | what's the odds? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat's the odds? c. Difference in respect of benefit or detriment. Now colloquial in negative and interrogative contexts, esp. in what's the odds?, what odds? (now chiefly Irish English): what does it matter? it makes (also is) no odds: it makes no difference, it doesn't matter; as makes no odds: as makes no difference. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] diversitya1340 difference1340 variancec1374 distancea1382 unlikenessa1387 variationc1405 discrepation?a1425 distinction1435 severaltyc1449 unlikelinessc1450 dissemblance1463 unlikelihood1483 alteritya1500 indifferencec1503 discrepancea1522 dissimilitude1532 differency1542 variety1552 discernment1570 disparitya1575 discrepancy1579 otherness1587 discernance1592 imparity1608 disanalogy1610 disresemblance1622 dislikeness1623 diff1624 inconformity1625 irresemblance1628 variousness1628 odds1642 disparation1654 aliety1656 disparility1656 disparateness1659 severality1664 nonconformity1672 unconformableness1712 dissimilarity1715 differentness1727 differ1787 allogeneitya1834 otherwiseness1890 otherliness1937 diversion- the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > the same [phrase] > it makes no difference it makes (also is) no odds1776 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be of no importance [phrase] > either way it makes (also is) no odds1776 what's the odds?1826 as makes no odds1955 1642 D. Rogers Naaman To Rdr. sig. B4 So great the oddes is, in what way a truth be uttered. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Def. xv. 212 Aristippus would have found no odds in dying by the bite of a Lion. 1695 J. Locke Further Considerations conc. Raising Value of Money 102 Whether it be any odds to England. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. v. 141 Their being compounded would make no odds. 1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 64 The omission of a point sometimes makes great odds in the sense. 1826 Sessions Papers 11 Dec. 86/1 I asked Jackson whose they were—he said, ‘What odds; they are mine.’ 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story ix, in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 410/1 Suppose I do die,..what's the odds? Caroline doesn't care for me. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiii. 165 It makes no odds whether a man has a thousand pounds, or nothing, there. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus viii. 94 But there, it's no odds. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. i. ix. 201 What's the odds to a working man whether he spells right or wrong? 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xvi. 345 That sense of sardonic tolerance, endurance. ‘What's the odds, boys?’ 1955 P. M. Young Elgar, O.M. ii. xvii. 288 Elgar's five great marches..were inspired by the spectacular. As near as makes no odds they are the musical counterpart to the Changing of the Guard. 1968 J. D. Carr Papa Là-bas ii. ix. 111 Whether I sideswiped him, or he sideswiped me, is no odds to anybody now. 1973 ‘M. Underwood’ Reward for Defector xxii. 158 What's the difficulty?..Not that it makes any odds. 1982 F. McGuinness Factory Girls iv. 23/1 Do yous all want to come up to our house for tea? Susan'll kill me, but sure what odds. 1998 Seahorse Internat. Sailing Apr. 7/1 The committee..were being offered 15 free boats by Sydney Yachts, or as near to free as makes no odds. < as lemmas |
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